Norman Granz Quotes
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I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in…
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum…
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I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
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Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in…
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
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I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
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I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
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You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
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I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
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To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore…
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Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
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